Cleopatra Had a Jazz Band
Lyrics by Jimmy Morgan and Jack Coogan
Key: C
Music by Jack Coogan
Copyright 1917

File Created September 10, 2020

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Verse 1:

C      A7   D7
Histor-y re-peats itself
G7              C
So the wise men say
I believe they're right
   G7                 D7
Be cause last night I heard
               G7
Peculiar music   play

C    A7       D7
In a dream it  takes me back
    G7               E7
Two thousand years a-go
Edim  D7
Which only goes to prove
       D                 G7
That E-gyptians were not slow

Chorus 1:

                D7
Cleopatra has a jazz band
G7                   C   A7
In her castle on the Nile
                       D7        G7
Ev'ry night she gave a jazz dance
                      C    C7
In her queer Egyptian style

    A7       D7
She won Mark Anthony
G7                  C      A7
With her syncopated harmony
   A7          D7
And while they played,she swayed
                             G7
She knew she had him all the while

       G7            D7
In the shadow of the pyramids
G7                      C
'Neath the old Egyptian moon
             G7
A sphinx was looking on and said,
                       E7
"There'll be a wedding soon"

        A7            D7
But the real historic scandal
    G    G7       C
Was Cleo lost her sandal
       G7
As she danced to the strains
                G    G7   C   EdimG7
Of the Egyptian Jazz Band tune

Verse 2:

C     A7      D7
Egypt got the dancing craze
G7              C
So the wise men say
                               G7
And when they heard that music start
    D7                   G7
The natives all began to sway

C      A7        D7
Caesar came from Rome to learn
   G7               E7
To dance the latest step
EdimD7
And when he heard those Jazzers play
   D                G7
He sure was full of pep

Chorus 2:

                D7
Cleopatra has a jazz band
G7                   C   A7
In her castle on the Nile
                       D7        G7
Ev'ry night she gave a jazz dance
                      C    C7
In her queer Egyptian style

    A7       D7
She won Mark Anthony
G7                  C
With her syncopated harmony
    A7         D7
And while they played,she swayed
                             G7
She knew she had him all the while

       G7            D7
In the shadow of the pyramids
G7                      C
'Neath the old Egyptian moon
             G7
A sphinx was looking on and said,
                       E7
"There'll be a wedding soon"

       A7                  D7
Brutus stabbed poor Julius Caesar
   G        G7       C
Be-cause he tried to please her,
       G7
As she danced to the strains
                G    G7   C
Of the Egyptian Jazz Band tune
EbdimC6


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